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There is one other odd possibility. trying to record a conference call Since nobody can record conference calls, what you had before was broken. Not all machines have Stereo Mix or can get it to work. Have you been through the Audacity Windows instructions? https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutori...

data received by Audacity will always be 16-bit, regardless of what settings you use.

That's it.

Koz

I will be recording 24/96 and 24/192 via Wasapi loopback.

Wasn't there a post that the Windows internals didn't support fancy/advanced digital rates? You may get away with that for one-pass as in straight recording, but not multi-pass where Windows has to do re-direction.

Koz

what seems to me an enormous amount of 60 cycle hum. Analyze > Plot Spectrum gives me 50Hz hum maybe from a European country. It's still a power problem. It seems to be coming and going because it's a good bet you're not listening to 50Hz. Most speaker and headphone systems can't work at that low a...

Before you get all excited and tip over your coffee cup, the technical specification testing is step one. Technical testing can be automated. After that, you still have to pass ACX Human Quality Control. That's where a real person listens to your work for theatrical quality. They will be listening f...

There's a section on Audiobook Production. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering This is an abbreviation for the mastering suite of tools. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudiobookMasteringSuite.jpg It's pretty handy because it guarantees Peak and RMS (Loudness), the first t...

Add / Remove Plugins under three menu headings:

Not everybody installs one plug-in. Some people arrive with suitcases of different plugins, but they only need them all in one service. Having them all appear everywhere wouldn't be useful.

Koz

It is two steps. Tools > Nyquist Plugin Installer puts ACX-Check in the right place on the Mac so it's available to Audacity to use. Analyze > Add Remove Plugins makes it available for you to use it. A good quiet room is a terrific start. You can use the Audacity bouncing sound meter and blue waves ...

One more. Even if you do succeed in installing, you still have to Analyze > Add Remove.

Koz

Audacity 2.4.2 is the latest stable build. That's recommended. There were some recent legacy versions with unfortunate problems. https://www.audacityteam.org/ Attached is the latest ACX-Check (there have been two). ACX-Check.ny Sometimes the Mac insists on "helping you" by adding bits and ...